Position of Timaru.—“ The British Admiralty chart places Timaru two miles out to sea,” remarked Mr T. H. M‘Combs. M.P., during an address in Christchurch on scientific research in New Zealand. He used this as an example with which to compare the exactness of the geodetic survey work in New Zealand, which had enabled the position of Wellington to he fixed within five feet. It was to correct such errors as that in fixing the position of Timaru that the visit of the British Admiralty survey ship was made necessary.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 10
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